text: MomAdvice Book Club March Book Club Discussion With the Author: A White Wind Blew A warmest welcome to all of our readers today as we discuss our MomAdvice Book Club pick for the month of March. I am particularly honored to have James Markert sharing his own thoughts on his book with us and I hope you will find his answers as fascinating as I have! Tuberculosis and how this illness affects its patients, and those that love them, are often the central focus of this book. After I finished reading this and then reading the historical notes about Waverly Place, I immediately went in search of more information about the illness and the backdrop for this book. Although the book goes into great detail of symptoms of TB and what the patients experience, it does not delve into why people have it because, in this time period of the book, people do not know how to cure it or why it lies dormant in some, while killing others. Tuberculosis, is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air. Most infections are asymptomatic and latent, but about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of those so infected. As we are able to read in this book, treatment for progressive cases often included removing ribs to help the lungs and all patients were encouraged to get as much fresh air as possible, even in wintery weather conditions, because fresh air was believed to help cure this illness. Delving into the book, we have an unlikely band of friends that have gathered together to create an orchestra who are working together to perform a concert. I love how the author pulls together these unlikely people and then, oftentimes, paints a very different portrait of what we expect them to be like and then tells us the true story of who they are when we dive further into the book. Rose's death, for example, takes me completely by surprise as I believed it was one way and it was not. McVain, who begins the novel as an unlikeable bully, later delves into his story of his true wartime injury and the unlikely love he discovered. Herman, when given a little love and attention from Susannah, steals the show with his beautiful voice. And, one of the most pivotal moments for Wolfgang, is when he finds out the death of his father is very different than his childhood interpretation of what really happened. I loved this book from start to finish. Although the book is filled with death and disease, it offered a surprising amount of hopefulness in it. There is so much love and beauty as the patients join forces to complete and perform the requiem and the beauty of these unlikely friendships and loved is solidified because they are all battling this same fight. James Markert is a debut novelist and screenwriter, which is why his writing feels oh-so-cinematic. James lives in Louisville, Kentucky with his wife and two children. He has a history degree from the University of Louisville, where, in his senior year, he was honored as the school's most outstanding history major. He won an IPPY Award for The Requiem Rose, published by Butler Books. With Requiem's local success, James was signed by Writers House Literary Agency in New York, and the book was sold to Sourcebooks, Landmark in January 2012. Rewritten and retitled, it became A White Wind Blew. James is currently working on his next novel, The Strange Case of Isaac Crawley, a story that takes place in the late nineteenth century and involves the theater scene, a lunatic asylum, and the theatrical version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde…and possibly a few gaslights, cobblestones, and an eerie fog. He runs his own blog called Markert Ink where you can read about some of his thoughts on books and writing. I know you will want to become a fan after you read this one and you can follow James on Twitter! James has graciously answered all of our questions about the setting, inspiration for the book, and who inspires him in his own writing. I am particularly excited for you to read his thoughts on adapting A White Wind Blew as a screenplay! Upon reading the historical notes about Waverly Place, we find that this sanitarium is considered one of the most haunted places in the United States. Why did you decide to set a book here and do you think you hint at the darkness of Waverly Hills (the Death Tunnel and the suicide scene in the book) in nod of this history you discovered? I grew up only a few miles from Waverly Hills and was always fascinated because of the legends and stories of ghosts there, but when I visited a few years ago, it was the history, the wooded surroundings, and grand architecture that drew me in. History seeped from every room. I went in wanting to come out with a story idea, something scary, actually, but instead, while I stood out on the fourth floor solarium porch, listening to the wind and watching the trees sway, I thought to myself: What if this place really is haunted? What if I am surrounded by ghosts? What is their story? I imagined the sound of a violin, and, coupled with the fact that they had no cure back then, the story of musical medicine took root. Waverly is known around the world as a haunted building, I thought the real flesh and blood inhabitants, the people who lived and died there, deserved to have a story told that revealed their fight and struggles. But in doing this, I also wanted to incorporate some of the legends, namely the nurse suicide and the body chute. And Big 15 was also taken from an actual man who worked there, doing the same job, and his name was Big 14 because of the size of his feet! The whole book really centers on music and music therapy for the patients. What type of research did you need to do to prepare for this portion of the book? My sister-in-law is a music therapist, so I did consult her. My sister is a pianist, and I think her constant practicing, although it annoyed me and my brothers as kids, really sunk in with me and inspired this book later in life. TB had no cure, and I feel that music can be really healing. I did a little research online, and have since become involved with the National Music Therapy Association, but since music therapy was not really a "field" during the time of the story, I intentionally didn't research that much from current music therapy practices because I wanted it to come off as something new for Wolfgang as well, something unpolished and evolving. When Wolfgang witnesses the horrific death of his father, he always blames his mother & never forges a relationship with her. When she comes to visit to take one of the instruments and Wolfgang discovers the true reason for his death, he invites her to the concert. Is there a reason why you did not write her into the concert scene at the end? I did consider writing her into the concert, but ultimately decided not to. White Wind is a moving story. It can be sad and funny in parts, and make you really think in others, and, although I wanted the concert to be uplifting on many levels, I didn't want to wrap everything up too nicely for Wolfgang. It didn't want it to seem like the concert solved everything for him, so I decided to leave her at home. Who are some of your favorite authors or favorite books that have influenced you as a writer? I grew up a huge fan of Stephen King. I was not a reader until sophomore year of high school. My English teacher told out class, "Ok, I know half of you won't want to read the "classics", and those who do probably won't fully enjoy it, so we're reading Stephen King novels all year." And we did, but not his scarier stories. We read Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Stand by Me, etc… and we had great discussions because all the kids read them. That's when I fell in love with books, and I then devoured every Stephen King book available. From there I moved on to Dean Koontz, and those two authors heavily influenced by first few unpublished novels. The way I write now, with historical fiction, I'd say my biggest influences are Ken Follett, Pat Conroy, Caleb Carr, and John Irving. I love how John Irving develops his characters. As far as suspense, I'm a big fan of Greg Iles. George RR Martin's Game of Thrones books are probably my favorite to read at the moment. Pillars of the Earth is my favorite book. Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafron is also one of my favorites. I could read Pat Conroy and John Irving all day long. The ending is left open to interpretation by the reader. As the writer, do you see Wolfgang choosing the priesthood or do you picture him continuing his work at Waverly Hills? I go back and forth on this, which is only part of the reason why I did it. Whenever someone asks me why, I always tell them that I fell asleep halfway through that sentence. But the truth is, when I got to that part, and I honestly didn't have an answer when I got there, I thought to myself that it didn't matter as much to me. Wolfgang had already begun his healing by then and I didn't want to lead him one way or another. The concept of faith is big in the book, but I don't try to answer it. The question: Where do we go when we die? Is also another big part of the book that I intentionally don't try to answer either. Faith is an open-ended question with many answers that lead to many other questions, so that is the main reason I ended it that way. Like faith, I wanted the reader to take that on themselves. I wanted to let the reader take Wolfgang where they thought he should go, and no matter, their answer would be right. As a screenwriter, many aspects of this book feel like they would lend itself to a movie. Are you planning to develop this for the screen? YES!!! I actually wrote the screenplay for this story before I wrote the novel because screenplays are quicker to write and the story, with the music, was so cinematic. I've always envisioned it as a movie. After I finish my next book in a few weeks I plan on rewriting the screenplay for A White Wind Blew. I've recently opened some doors with another movie I've written that could make A White Wind Blew a bigger possibility in the future. It will be a movie someday, even if I have to produce it myself! Who would be part of your "dream cast," for playing these roles? I don't always do this with books I write, but I did with this one. I had three actors clearly in mind when I wrote it. For Wolfgang I imagined Joaquin Phoenix. For Susannah I imagined Amy Adams. And sadly, for McVain, I had imagined Phillip Seymour Hofmann. But my second choice for McVain would be Russell Crowe. And for Rose I'd always had Audrey Tautou in mind. She plays Mathilde in the French film, A Very Long Engagement, and she's also in The Da Vinci Code. Thank You so much to all the readers in your book club for reading my debut novel, and for the insightful questions. Please feel free to tell many other books clubs about it! Best wishes, James Markert What did you think of A White Wind Blew? Can't you just picture this as a movie? It is cinematic storytelling at it's best. Share your thoughts on our book club pick below and offer recommendations for what you might like to see on our list in the upcoming year! Our next book club pick will be announced on March 28th- this is a big departure from our past three historical fiction books! In the meantime, catch up on what is happening this year and explore our past book club selections here! This post does contain affiliate links! Pin It Published March 25, 2014 by: Amy Allen Clark is the founder of MomAdvice.com. You can read all about her here.


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World Environment Day Concluded with Innovation Celebration
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The month-long festivities for World Environment Day wrapped up with a celebration of Portland and Oregon's environmental ethic and a sampling of environmental innovations. Representatives from local companies, colleges and universities, community organizations, tribes and public agencies showcased their work to elected officials from the region and representatives from the United Nations Environment Program's North America Office. One example is Lucid Energy, a company pioneering in-pipe turbines for city water pipes to generate electricty.
Photojournalist Gary Braasch included Portland's green infrastructure projects--green streets managing stormwater and natural areas soaking up the rain-- in his photo show about the impacts of climate change and the solutions that communities like ours are using. To see some of Gary's work, visit www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/
Artist Kenji Williams brought a slice of his awe-inspiring Bella Gaia performance, which we hope comes back to Portland for everyone to see in its full length!
Environmental Services director Dean Marriott speaks with State Senator Jackie Dingfelder and Mike Houck.
Gary Braasch; Portland State University exhibit. All photos by Bruce MacGregor Photography.
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The Library of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society
9 October 2017
,This year the Cardiff Naturalists' Society is celebrating its 150th anniversary. You can read about the history of the Society, and its close links with the National Museum here and here.
Right from the outset the Society amassed its own Library focusing on natural history, geology, the physical sciences, and archaeology.
Many of the publications in the Library were received as exchanges with societies and institutions around the world. They would send out copies of their Transactions, and then receive copies of those organisations' publications in return. Some of the institutions and societies they were exchanging with included; the Edinburgh Botanical Society; the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences; the South West Africa Scientific Society; the Polish Academy of Science; the Royal Society of Tasmania; the Sociedad Geographia de Lima; and the Kagoshima University in Japan.
A number of the publications in the Library were later bound by William Lewis, a bookseller and stationer based in Duke Street in Cardiff. They all have beautiful marbled covers, endpapers, and a matching marbling pattern on the edges of the text block. Each one also has a bookplate with an embossed image of the Society logo, they are incredibly beautiful examples of bookbinding.
Not all the items in the Library were received on exchange, a great many were also the result of donations, especially by members. A lovely example is a copy of a second edition of An illustrated manual of British birds by Howard Saunders from 1899. Many of the pages contain annotations relating to whether the previous owner had encountered that particular species in the local area, such as spotting the nest of a pair of mistle-thrushes in Penylan in 1900. Unfortunately the signature of ownership is somewhat illegible, so it's not possible to make out their name, all that we can tell is that they lived in Richmond Road in 1900.
There is also a copy of Claudia and Pudens, a book by John Williams published in 1848. The book was presented to the Society by C. H. James Esq. of Merthyr, and in it is attached a letter to T. H. Thomas (a prominent member of the Society) dated 1892. The letter discusses Roman remains in Cardiff, and advises Thomas not to get drawn in to the 'Claudia myth', a popular theory suggesting a Claudia mentioned in the New Testament was a British princess. The author of the letter is quite scathing about the claims, calling them "a ridiculous fabrication".
In 1996 a copy of Castell Coch by Robert Drane, a founding member of the Society was donated to the Library. It was published in 1857, and is now quite rare, as according to John Ward (former curator at the Cardiff Museum, and the National Museum), Drane subsequently destroyed as many copies of this book as possible! The copy donated to the Society contains annotations throughout, correcting or commenting on the contents, and a listing of all the people the author presented with copies.
In 1925 the Society decided to place its Library in the Museum Library, with the following stipulations;
• To the ownership of the Society's Library remaining with the Society
• To all accessions to the Society's Library being entered in the Society's register
• To all accessions to the Society's Library being stamped with the Society's stamp
• That members of the Society may enjoy the same privileges as at present in the matter of the volumes and periodicals belonging to the Society
• That this proposal does not refer to the "Transactions", offprints, and other publications of the Society
Later in 1927 they decided to make it a permanent deposit, provided the Museum agreed to the additional stipulations;
● That members of the Society may enjoy the same privileges as at present in the matter of the volumes and periodicals belonging to the Society, and which may be received in the future in exchange for publications of the Society
● The Museum will bear the cost of all binding, which shall be undertaken as and when, in the opinion of the Museum Council finances permit. There shall be no differentiation, in this respect, between the Museum Library and the Society's Library.
Although the Society's Library had been in the care of the Museum Librarian since that time, the Honorary Librarian had always been a member of the Society. But, from 1964 the Honorary Librarian was both a member of the Society and a member of staff in the Museum Library.
List of Honorary Librarians
R.W. Atkinson 1892-1902
P. Rhys Griffiths 1902-1906
E.T.B. Reece 1907-1911
H.M. Hallett 1911-1948
H.N. Savory 1949-1962
G.T. Jefferson 1962-1964
E.H. Edwards 1964-1970
E.C. Bridgeman 1970-1976
W.J. Jones 1976-1985
J.R. Kenyon 1985-2013


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7 Essential Home Management Skills to Teach Your Child
We all want our children to be able to care for themselves and their own homes when it's time for them to fly the nest. So what skills should we teach our children to prepare them for eventual independence? We asked our Top 25 Home Management Mom Bloggers to share the essential home management skills every parent should teach her child.
1. How to Cook and Plan a Menu
"Learning to cook is not only a home management skill but a life skill. Learning to cook can be the single most important factor in teaching skills like budgeting, meal planning, and creating healthy eating habits that can last a lifetime. A family that cooks together and eats together is indirectly teaching their kids that spending time with family is important and there is tremendous value in that." — The Domestic Life Stylist
"Menu planning! It's one of my least favorite weekly tasks, but it saves a lot of time and money." — Jamie Anderson of All My Loose Ends
2. Laundry Skills
"A few lessons in Home-Ec can go a long way. By the time the little chickens leave the nest I think each one should be able to do a load of laundry, iron a shirt, [and] sew a button on a pair of pants. . . .There are some things that mommy can't do forever!" — AlexisAnne of Clean, Smart, Simple Style
3. Time Management
"We all have 24 hours in a day but what makes our experiences unique is how we choose to use those 24 hours. Make the kids a schedule, get them involved in planning the day's activities. These skills will not only be valuable at home management but at school and later in their careers as well. Successful home management is about planning and execution. But first, you have to become masterful with time." — The Domestic Life Stylist
4. Teamwork
"Team work is another great home management skill to teach because no one is capable of running a household without help. Kids should learn that everyone needs to pitch in and do their part to keep the house in order and functioning. Assigning a few chores, no matter how basic, to each family member will help everyone out in the long run." — AlexisAnne of Clean, Smart, Simple Style
5. Basic Money Management
"Basic money management skills are a must. Even at a young age kids can learn that 'stuff' costs money, and people need to work hard to earn that money. As they grow up, it becomes even more important to teach about saving and planning ahead for future expenses." — AlexisAnne of Clean, Smart, Simple Style
6. Good Cleaning Habits
"Clean up as you go! We are still really working on this one around our house but I think that it is SO much easier to spend a couple of minutes to clean up as you go instead of spending an hour at the end of a long day cleaning up. I realize that this is not always possible to do but, for the most part, it is just a matter of creating a new habit." — Jenn of Clean & Scentsible
"Clutter management is important for making sure that personal spaces are enjoyable and contribute to good living, and not places of stress and turmoil. Everything should have a home and if you don't use it, get rid of it." — Angie of Echoes of Laughter
"We regularly clear out things that aren't needed or [that are] used and 'bless' someone else by giving them away or selling them at a yard sale." — Ginny of Organizing Home Life
7. How to Let Go of Perfection
"Children and adults alike can get very discouraged when things are messy. Teaching children not to give up when things don't happen the way they are supposed to is an important lesson in life." — Ginny of Organizing Home Life
"Let go of perfection. Your house doesn't need to be spotless — it needs to be good enough for the people that live there." — Tsh Oxenreider of Simple Mom


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Hannah Bossie, a senior in exercise and sport science, has fallen in love with research as an undergraduate and plans to pursue her doctorate so that one day she can be an inspiring mentor to young scientists.
Johns Creek, Ga.
High School:
Northview High
Degree objective:
B.S. in exercise and sport science
Expected graduation:
Fall 2014
University highlights, achievements, awards and scholarships:
The summer after my freshman year, I had the opportunity to be a nanny for a little boy named Carson who is affected by mitochondrial disease. To say he stole my heart would be an understatement. His unconditional love and appreciation for the smallest things (like ceiling fans, waving his hand out the car window and the enjoyment of eating a Go-Gurt) forever changed my life and my perspective. Upon returning to school my sophomore year, I knew I wanted to become involved with the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation and play an active role in advocacy. After becoming an ambassador for the organization in 2011, I began the first collegiate chapter of the UMDF at UGA. With a dedicated board of directors and an enthusiastic group of members, we participated in multiple club fairs, hosted percentage nights and advocacy events, and worked closely with local families affected by mitochondrial disease. With the support of the UGA golf program and local "mito" families, we were able to host a successful golf tournament called "Carson's Classic" two years in a row, raising over $30,000 for the UMDF in support of education, family support and research toward finding a cure. The ability to start a student organization and advocate for a cause that is so close to my heart was one of the most incredible experiences of my life.
When I was accepted into the exercise and sport science major at the end of my junior year, I received a kinesiology Listserv email requesting participants for a research study in the Exercise Muscle Physiology Lab. Without any other information, I volunteered immediately, excited to finally be a part of the department. During my testing session, I was exposed to the NIRS technology and analysis method that was developed in professor Kevin McCully's lab as a noninvasive measure of mitochondrial function. I was instantly intrigued and after meeting with Dr. McCully following my participation, I began working in the lab as an undergraduate researcher. After working on an undergraduate project in the fall, I proposed my own project to Dr. McCully that involved measuring mitochondrial function in those affected by mitochondrial disease. With his support, I have been able to conduct my own research project, working in collaboration with a geneticist practicing in Atlanta. This project has really allowed me to channel both my philanthropic efforts and my love for science in a way that has been incredibly fulfilling to me. I had the opportunity to present my pilot data at the CURO Symposium and will be continuing the project throughout the summer and fall. Since high school, I had planned on becoming an occupational therapist. However, after my experiences over the past year in Dr. McCully's lab, I have discovered an incredible passion for research that I never would have anticipated. I now feel drawn toward a career in research, which I never would have discovered without the opportunities that I have been given in Dr. McCully's lab as an undergraduate researcher.
Current Employment:
Occupational therapy technician at Athens Orthopedic Clinic
Family Ties to UGA:
My mom and older sister were both Dawgs; I was born to bleed Georgia red!
I chose to attend UGA because…
It was never really a thought as to where I wanted to go to college. I always wanted to be a Bulldog. I applied for early admission and was accepted; I didn't fill out a single application after that. UGA is unique in that it offers a competitive academic curriculum coupled with an exciting and fun atmosphere in Athens.
My favorite things to do on campus are…
My favorite things to do on campus are research, research and research! I love coming into the Exercise Muscle Physiology Lab, pouring myself a cup of coffee, sitting down in the data analysis room across from the coffee maker (our version of meeting at the water cooler) and talking science. The lab is always bustling with experiments, discussions of journal articles, recent data analysis results and, of course, troubleshooting. One of my favorite aspects of lab is what a collaborative environment it is, with graduate students, undergraduate students and faculty all contributing and getting involved with each other's research. It is impossible to spend time in the lab without asking at least one question and learning something new.
When I have free time, I like…
… working out and spending time outside. I like to walk the trails in Five Points and often end up at Bear Hollow. I love spending time with friends and really enjoy cooking.
The craziest thing I've done is…
… snowboard down Flute Bowl in Whistler, Canada, the day after breaking my wrist. One cut-up tube sock, a large zippered plastic bag and decent amount of duct tape seemed like sufficient protection for my cast. After an hour hike in knee-deep snow, we finally reached the top of the bowl with a view of nothing but white. Dropping in and putting down the first tracks on untouched powder through a maze of snow-covered trees was the most euphoric feeling I've ever experienced. Later that afternoon, I found out that the bowl had been so perfectly untouched because it was actually closed due to avalanche conditions … that's when it became crazy.
My favorite place to study is…
My favorite place to study is the conference room in the kinesiology faculty hallway of Ramsey. It's usually empty and quiet, and it has the most comfortable chairs! I also like to take my flashcards to Memorial Park when it is nice outside.
My favorite professor is…
I have been surrounded by the most incredible faculty within the kinesiology department, all of which I have genuinely enjoyed learning from. My favorite professor is undoubtedly Kevin McCully. Dr. McCully embodies everything I could ask for in a mentor. His passion for research is absolutely infectious and his genuine desire to help and encourage all of his students to reach their goals is unparalleled. Dr. McCully's interest and belief in my potential has been an invaluable contribution to my intellectual growth at UGA. Dr. McCully's guidance and mentorship have not only allowed me to realize what I believe to be my real calling in life, but they have also helped to build the intellectual confidence that I need to truly pursue it. He has created a lab environment that fosters scientific curiosity and collaboration among all his researchers, regardless of age or major. Becoming a part of his lab turned a large university into a family.
Since high school, I had always planned on going to occupational therapy school after completing my undergraduate degree. After the past year of my involvement in the lab, I have realized that my passion lies with research and I now intend to complete my master's and Ph.D. in exercise physiology. If I can be a "Dr. McCully" to a single student in my career, I would deem myself a success as a professor.
If I could share an afternoon with anyone, I would love to share it with…
… my grandmother. I never had the opportunity to meet my mom's mother. My mom is such an important role model in my life and I would love to be able to meet the woman who raised and influenced her.
If I knew I could not fail, I would…
… honestly be doing exactly what I am doing now, which is pursing my Ph.D. and a research career focused on demonstrating the ways that exercise can eliminate the need for many commonly prescribed medications. I would also like to create the perfect recipe for a gluten-free chocolate chip cookie.
If money was not a consideration, I would love to…
… travel the world with my family. We all have a "travel bug" and I can't think of anything more exciting than getting to explore the globe with my very favorite people.
After graduation, I plan to…
After graduation I hope to begin my master's in exercise physiology under professor Kevin McCully. Next, I plan to obtain my Ph.D. in either exercise physiology or rehabilitation sciences, ultimately becoming a university professor. I strongly wish to pursue my research in an academic setting because I have experienced firsthand what an influential experience it can be for students to participate in research labs. I would love the opportunity to mentor and encourage young scientists, as I have been so lucky to have that experience at UGA.
The one UGA experience I will always remember will be…
When I look back on my time at UGA, one of my fondest memories is hosting Carson's Classic Golf Tournament. The day of the tournament, especially the first year that it was held, was an overwhelming experience. To have Carson, my friends, family, volunteers and local families affected by mitochondrial disease all there in support of the tournament and our cause was absolutely incredible. To be able to take an idea of advocacy for a cause that is so close to my heart and finally see the cultivation of my efforts and the efforts of so many others was one of the most rewarding experiences that I've ever had.


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HiD::Page - Pages that are converted during the output process
my $page = HiD::Page->new({ dest_dir => 'path/to/output/dir' , hid => $hid_object , input_filename => 'path/to/page/file' , layouts => $hash_of_hid_layout_objects, });
Class representing a "page" object -- i.e., a file that is not a blog post, but that is still processed (e.g., converted from Markdown or Textile to HTML and run through a layout rendering step) during publication.
Get the name of the default page layout. (The default is 'default'.)
Publish -- convert, render through any associated layouts, and write out to disk -- this data from this object.
Also consumes HiD::Role::IsConverted and HiD::Role::IsPublished; see documentation for that role as well if you're trying to figure out how an object from this class works.
version 1.992
John SJ Anderson <firstname.lastname@example.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2015 by John SJ Anderson.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install HiD, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm HiD
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install HiD
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.


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by Alexandra Kirby
While Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) is well known for his abstract sculptural work, much of which is housed at the Isamu Noguchi Museum, his spatial designs have largely been forgotten – either due to never coming to fruition or because a majority are hidden behind private gates. Noguchi's imaginative spaces vary from playgrounds to suburban corporate courtyards, such as the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (now CIGNA) campus in Bloomfield, CT. His early spatial designs included a handful of unrealized commissions for the City of New York (many plans are cast in bronze at the museum), and numerous east coast projects with SOM architect Gordon Bunshaft including the sunken gardens at Chase Manhattan Plaza and Yale's Beineke Library.
Image (above): Isamu Noguchi Welding, ca. 1976. Noguchi was very involved with every detail of his plaza design, most notable in the computer programming for the fountain jets and the finishes of steel and granite installations. Image courtesy of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum.
Late in his career, from 1978 until his death in 1988, Noguchi designed four public spaces in the United States: Philip A. Hart Plaza in Detroit, Michigan (1978); the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center Plaza in Los Angeles, California (1980); Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida (1986); and the privately managed California Scenario in Costa Mesa, California (1981). These sites are Noguchi's only publicly accessible spaces, as well as his most endangered.
Philip Hart Plaza (1972-1978), his earliest and most impressive public commission, is located south of Detroit's downtown, on the river looking south to Windsor, Canada. It is the quiet civic center of a city that has become an icon of post-industrial urban decay. The eight-acre plaza, originally conceived as the locale for Detroit's civic events, is situated at the southern edge of the city's radial street plan, elevated above the edge of the Detroit River with the UAW-Ford National Programs Center (previously the Veterans Memorial Building) and Cobo Convention Center to the west. To the north Jefferson Avenue separates the plaza from the high rises of Detroit's downtown and financial district, creating a backdrop of architectural styles. To the east, one can see the vacant footprint of the former Ford Auditorium, demolished in 2011, and the General Motors Renaissance Center.
Image (right): Aerial view of the opening of Hart Plaza, 1978. Courtesy of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum.
Following critical acclaim of his dramatic Osaka Fountains at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, Noguchi was commissioned by the city of Detroit to design a $2 million fountain in honor of American automotive innovator, Horace E. Dodge, Sr., and his son. Before long, Noguchi was consulting the firm of Smith, Hynchman & Grylls on the design of the entire plaza. The two-level plaza is paved in carnelian granite and centers on Noguchi's impressive Dodge Fountain, a polished steel behemoth shaped like an up-turned wing nut. The fountain was originally programed to perform a series of thirty-three patterns of spray from its 300 water jets, offering a visual spectacle for the city where children could play on hot summer days.
Inviting pedestrians to the space, a twisted pylon rises 120-feet into the air at the base of downtown's radial plan. The plaza features playful topography, including a massive ziggurat at the eastern edge that overlooks a subterranean amphitheater, surprising circular dips in the main plaza, and an underground concession level that is accessed by a broad arc of shallow stairs.
Image (left): Dodge Fountain remains in good physical condition today. Photo by Alexandra Kirby, 2013.
Since its opening in 1978, the plaza has seen the addition of lighting (which Noguchi adamantly opposed), security cameras, cell phone antennas, and the 2003 monument, Transcending, The Legacy of the Labor Movement, all of which have severely detracted from Noguchi's original design. Alicia Minter, Director of the City of Detroit Recreation Department, explained that there are conceptual plans to change the physical design of the Hart Plaza and create more green open space to transition to the riverfront. She writes that "It is a hard surface plaza with small amounts of green space. It requires a tremendous amount of capital for ADA compliance and general improvements." While these tentative plans are not currently available, it is hard to believe that a new lawn would complement Noguchi's design – which only included sparse groves of trees at the plaza's perimeter – not to mention survive the harsh Midwestern winters. Green landscaping is also hardly ideal for the volume of traffic generated by events such as the hugely popular Movement Electronic Music Festival, which takes place over the course of a week early in the summer, with over 100,000 visitors to the plaza. Noguchi's granite paving, on the other hand, has survived over three decades in shockingly good condition.
In 2012, AIA Detroit's Urban Priorities Committee held its annual international "Detroit by Design" competition, focusing on the city's waterfront. The objective was: Amazing and Connected, emphasizing the need for physical, visual and historic connectivity and new ideas, but the literature for competitors lacked contextual background for thoughtful and transformative design, and adequate reference to the value of the Noguchi design. The competition received 174 entries from architectural firms and artists across the globe proposing creative, although rarely rational, approaches to how to reactivate the urban edge of Detroit. Winning submissions were selected by a jury comprised of the architect Daniel Libeskind, the landscape architect Walter Hood, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Museum Director Reed Kroloff, Detroit Riverfront Conservancy President Faye Alexander Nelson, and the Toronto-based architect Lola Sheppard. Of the six winning entries, only one was from the United States – by Atelier WHY of Jersey City. The proposed designs were largely exercises in creative thinking to offer innovate approaches to the longstanding issues surrounding the waterfront and broader issues of Detroit as a whole, and were clearly not founded in experience or understanding of the existing site but, rather, as a stage for radical design. This competition shows the growing international recognition of Detroit's urban planning challenges, but aimed for a carte blanche approach rather than embracing the distinctive extant resources on the waterfront, such as Hart Plaza.
At a mere 34 years old, Hart Plaza is already perceived as a relic of our past. When constructed, the plaza was hailed as a cultural landmark that helped to fortify a new post-war identity for the city of Detroit. It was designed primarily as a congregational space to act as the heart of the city's civic activity, while allowing downtown workers a space to relax during the week, demonstrating Noguchi's interest in the themes of leisure and ritual. Initially commissioned with pride and opened with great ceremony, today the plaza is severely underused and simply derelict, but above that it remains one of Noguchi's largest and most unusual works in his diverse oeuvre.
Image (right): Model for Philip A Hart Plaza, Isamu Noguchi. Courtesy of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. 1972.
Modernist civic spaces have been subject to a great deal of scrutiny – and demolition – in the past years, often fairly. San Francisco's UN Plaza (Lawrence Halprin, 1975) and Boston City Hall (Kallman, McKinnell and Knowles, 1968) have been listed as some of the "World's Worst Public Spaces" by the Project for Public Space, and we've seen the recent demolition of Dan Kiley's Lincoln Center Plaza North design in New York City (1964, demolished 2009) and partial demolition of Lawrence Halprin's Skyline Park (1978, remodeled 2003) in Denver, Colorado. While it can't be denied that change is inherent in architecture and landscape, and that the needs of a community should be the primary concern in a public space, demolition can't always be the answer. What so many of these sites lack are substantial activation, education and above all, general maintenance.
Nevertheless, there are few civic spaces that came out of the urban renewal period of the mid-1970s through 1980s that are equal in artistic value to the Noguchi sites; most were works of experimental planners and landscape architects who approached public design and the urban experience from a very different perspective than Noguchi's. Philip Hart Plaza is an especially unusual case. Designed by a prominent international artist, yet located in a city simply trying to stay afloat, it has been preserved by its neglect.
Image (left): The park has become popular with the local skateboarding communities for its large, uninterrupted space. These skateboarders lifted a granite tile as a ramp for practicing jumps in front of the Ziggurat at the southeast edge of the plaza. Photo by Alexandra Kirby, 2013.
Noguchi designed many public sculptures, and as recognized works of art, they will be protected for future generations to enjoy. His public spaces, on the other hand, are largely understood as landscapes rather than as art pieces. This makes Noguchi's public spaces difficult to assertively categorize and, more importantly, to safeguard. Unfortunately, because of their perception as public spaces rather than individual artistic works, they require a much broader and complex understanding of the artist's intention than do traditional "works of art." Ultimately, it is the public that has a voice in the perceived value or obsolescence of the spaces, rendering them vulnerable to unsympathetic change or, conversely, to enduring preservation.
Alexandra Kirby recently received her MS in Historic Preservation at Columbia University. She currently lives in San Francisco, California.


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UPDATED 4:14 P.M. EST — The video of First Lady Michelle Obama's confrontation with Ellen Sturtz has become available. Watch it below:
UPDATED 9:14 A.M. EST — The audio of First Lady Michelle Obama's confrontation with Ellen Sturtz has become available. Listen to it below:
Ellen Sturtz claims in an interview with The Huffington Post, that she didn't plan on interrupting First Lady Michelle Obama, but her fundraiser speech triggered her emotions and she couldn't hold it in:
"I want to talk about the children," Sturtz said. "I want to talk about the LGBT young people who are … being told, directly and indirectly, that they're second-class citizens. I'm tired of it. They're suffering. … We've been asking president to sign that ENDA executive order for five years. How much longer do we need to wait?"
Sturtz, a member of pro-LGBT rights group GetEQUAL, donated to President Barack Obama's campaign because she believed that he would follow through on ensuring that the LGBTQ community no longer faced work-place discrimination. She claims to be surprised by the First Lady's response:
"Basically, I was asked by the first lady to be quiet, and I can't be quiet any longer. … I was surprised by how negative the crowd seemed to be. It was actually a little unsettling and disturbing," said Sturtz.
"She obviously thought she was going to make an example of me or something. I wasn't scared at all," she added.
The organization is already throwing around "aggressive," and insinuating that the FLOTUS was trying to be intimidating; this means the "Angry Black Woman" characterizations are not far behind.
Sturtz is reportedly on Twitter (@eos16), but with the First Lady's supporters on a rampage, she's understandably keeping a low social media profile.
Read original report below.
President Barack Obama may have a problem with confrontation, but First Lady Michelle Obama certainly does not.
Ellen Sturtz, 56, a lesbian activist protesting President Obama's delay in signing an anti-discrimination executive order, paid $500 to heckle the FLOTUS at a private Democratic Party fundraiser in Washington, D.C.
Refusing to be intimidated, the First Lady let her know how they do it on the Southside of Chicago and shut her down.
"One of the things that I don't do well is this," Mrs. Obama said to applause from most of the guests, according to a White House transcript. "Do you understand?"
A pool report from a reporter in the room said Mrs. Obama "left the lectern and moved over to the protester." The pool report quoted Mrs. Obama as saying: "Listen to me or you can take the mic, but I'm leaving. You all decide. You have one choice."
The audience responded by asking Obama to remain, according to the pool report, which quoted a woman nearby telling Sturtz, "You need to go."
Sturtz was escorted out of the room. She said in an interview later she was stunned by Mrs. Obama's response.
"She came right down in my face," Sturtz said. "I was taken aback."
Read more at the Washington Post.
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I had recently used the Complete Genomics data myself, and you might want to consult that post, since I resolved some of the chromosomes at a finer phylogenetic detail using the current ISOGG nomenclature. For example, the 3 Y-haplogroup I chromosomes all belong to I1a, so their shallow divergence from each other do not reflect on the entire I haplogroup. Similarly, all the R1b chromosomes belong to R1b1a2a1a1b, so their shallow divergence does not reflect on the entire R1b haplogroup.
An anomaly in my own PhyML analysis was NA19649 which was placed in the right part of the tree, but showed an abnormally long branch length. This is explained by Wei et al.
Examination of the distribution of variants along the chromosome revealed an excess in one sample, GS19649, in the region 28,670,244 – 28,735,914 compared with the other individuals; this was associated with low coverage of this region, so we hypothesised that the excess arose from a combination of deletion of the region in this individual and mismapping of reads originating from other parts of the chromosome. We excluded from further consideration all variable sites from all individuals that fell into this region.Of course, the Complete Genomics data are lacking in many of the haplogroups present in modern humans, so the authors added a more basal individual:
We therefore generated additional sequence data from a haplogroup A individual, NA21313. This chromosome was derived for the markers M32, M190, M220, M144, M202, M305 and M219, and ancestral for P97, placing it in haplogroup A3b2*.Note that this haplogroup is not the most basal in the Y-chromosome tree. It corresponds to A1b1b2b in current ISOGG terminology, and is several layers derived relative to the most basal A0 haplogroup, as well as an even more basal Y-chromosome which currently awaits publication. So, keep in mind that the age estimate of 101-115 thousand years does not include the most divergent Palaeoafrican lineages.
The pdf file at the journal website seems to be currently missing Table 1 and the supplementary materials. Here is Table 1, showing age inferences using different methods:
These results seem consistent with my post-70ka Out-of-Arabia scenario, preceded by a pre-100ka Out-of-Africa. Of particular interest:
The second internal node examined was the multifurcation of haplogroups I, G and NR (i.e. K), the representation in this reduced set of individuals of a larger multifurcation also involving several F sublineages, H and J (Karafet et al. 2008). The minimal resolution of the lineages, even in a phylogeny based on sequencing of 8.97 Mb, implies a rapid expansion, which we date here at 41-52 KYA.This seems like a very good signal corresponding to the Upper Paleolithic of Eurasia, and might suggest that haplogroups C and DE split off before this seminal event, which involved F descendants. Hopefully, by using the larger sample (but lower coverage) of the 1000 Genomes data, already announced by this team, we will learn more about missing branches of the phylogeny.
The authors also address the issue of mutation rate:
We used a calibration based on direct measurement of the Y-chromosomal SNP mutation rate both in years and generations from a deep-rooting family (Xue et al. 2009) since this requires the minimum number of assumptions and has already been adopted in the literature (Cruciani et al. 2011). The measurement does, however, have wide confidence intervals since only a small number of mutations were observed, and these confidence intervals were not included in our consideration of times, which used the point estimate. Two lines of reasoning suggest that we may have more confidence in the point estimate than simple consideration of the number of mutations might suggest. First, it is consistent with other direct measurements of the human mutation rate, allowing for the expected higher mutation rate on the Y because of its permanent location in the mutation-prone male germ line (e.g. Roach et al. 2010). Second, it is consistent with the rate inferred from human-chimpanzee comparisons of the same sections of the Y chromosome: 1.3 x 10-9 mutations/nucleotide/year for a 6.5 million year Y-chromosomal divergence time (Scally et al. 2012, Xue et al. 2009). Nevertheless, additional measurements of mutation rate are urgently needed to improve calibration.I am pretty sure that as genome sequencing costs plummet, we will get an ever better estimate of the Y-chromosome mutation rate. As I've said before, genealogists may have an important role to play here, by identifying very deep rooting pedigrees. The Xue et al. (2009) rate uses a Chinese pedigree about 2-centuries deep, but I am sure that European genealogists may have documented pedigrees that go even deeper. Doing whole genome sequencing on two lines from two sons of a man who lived, e.g., in the 1600s, or even before, will shrink the confidence intervals of the mutation rate drastically, because of the great number of generations separating his living descendants.
Using deep-rooted pedigrees is important, because by whole genome sequencing only two individuals you get several dozen generations' worth of mutation. By contrast, sampling father-son pairs would require dozens of genomes to achieve a comparable amount of mutation.
Genome Research doi: 10.1101/gr.143198.112
A calibrated human Y-chromosomal phylogeny based on resequencing
Wei Wei et al.
We have identified variants present in high-coverage complete sequences of 36 diverse human Y chromosomes from Africa, Europe, South Asia, East Asia and the Americas representing eight major haplogroups. After restricting our analysis to 8.97 Mb of unique male-specific Y sequence, we identified 6,662 high-confidence variants including SNPs, MNPs and indels. We constructed phylogenetic trees using these variants, or subsets of them, and recapitulated the known structure of the tree. Assuming a male mutation rate of 1x10-9 per bp per year, the time depth of the tree (haplogroups A3-R) was about 101-115 thousand years, and the lineages found outside Africa dated to 57-74 thousand years, both as expected. In addition, we dated a striking Paleolithic male lineage expansion to 41-52 thousand years ago and the node representing the major European Y lineage, R1b, to 4-13 thousand years ago, supporting a Neolithic origin for these modern European Y chromosomes. In all, we provide a nearly 10-fold increase in the number of Y markers with phylogenetic information, and novel historical insights derived from placing them on a calibrated phylogenetic tree.


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The European Committee of the Regions (CoR), at the initiative of member of Dalarna County Council Birgitta Sacrédeus (SE/EPP), has adopted an opinion on Active and Healthy Ageing at its October plenary session. Europe is growing older and so the CoR stresses the need for preventive action and the crucial role that new technologies play in ensuring the active and healthy ageing of EU citizens. "Physical and mental balance as well as the silver economy will make it easier to meet this challenge, in the face of a demographic imbalance," said rapporteur Birgitta Sacrédeus.
The ageing population is a problem that concerns all EU countries. It is estimated that the share of people aged over 80 in the EU-28's population will double between 2017 and 2080, rising from 5.5% to 12.7%. In the EU-28, the number of people of retirement age, which in 2017 amounted to 29.9%, is expected to almost double to 52.3% by 2080, pointing to changes in the age structure in Europe.
Regional authorities in 20 of the 28 Member States are – at least partly – responsible for health systems and often for social care systems too. Their budgets bear the weight of chronic diseases and the rising costs of long-term care. Local and regional authorities play a key role in designing and boosting innovation, enabling older people to participate actively in society without discrimination, and ensuring a safe and independent high-quality of life.
The CoR calls for the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing to be firmly anchored in the EU's political priorities after 2020 and closely linked to the Digital Single Market, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals in the field of health.
Local and regional elected representatives call for a strong public health programme and for the budget to give priority to promoting health, preventing diseases and reducing health inequalities under the post-2020 EU research programme.
The CoR also calls on the Member States and their regions to reflect, together with doctors' and nurses' associations, on how to make the health profession more attractive and on training and retraining modules to address labour shortages. It recommends creating an Erasmus Plus scheme for medical practitioners, including geriatricians.
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Press Release: People v. Webb, Hannah Jo, 3/27/09
March 27, 2009
Bradford R. Fenocchio
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For Immediate Release
Date March 27, 2009
Art Campos
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Scott Owens
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A 26-year-old Oregon woman was sentenced to two months in jail by a Placer County judge today in the 2007 case in which a deceased newborn baby or a fetus was found by a worker sorting through trash for recyling items at the Materials Recovery Facility near Roseville.
Hannah Jo Webb was also placed on three years probation by Superior Court Judge Mark S Curry and was ordered to complete nine months of counseling.
In November, Webb, a former sixth-grade teacher in Oregon, entered a plea of no contest to a misdemeanor count of illegally disposing of fetal remains, which carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail.
She contended to authorities that she did not know she was pregnant and that the baby was stillborn when delivered on July 23, 2007, as she stayed at the apartment of friends in Roseville, according to Placer Deputy District Attorney Dan Wesp.
She said she was alone in the apartment when the child was born and placed the body in a trash bag and then in a Dumpster, Wesp said.
Before imposing sentence, Curry said, "This is a shocking case to the court."
He said that if there had been any evidence that Webb had a role in causing the baby's death, the woman might be facing a different charge.
"It would be murder," the judge said.
The child's remains were examined by forensics experts with the California Department of Justice, but they were unable to conclude whether the baby was stillborn nor could they determine what caused its death, Wesp said.
Webb's attorney, Peter Tiemann, asked the court for leniency, saying the woman had been a positive role model in her hometown of Pendleton, Ore, and that she realizes she made an error in judgment.
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I've been drinking tea pretty much all my life, allowing for the fact that there probably was no tea in my baby-bottles. I gave it up twice, once when a then-boyfriend sneered at me for being addicted (okay, I was, but I was also stubborn enough to bear a week of the blinding headaches and overwhelming exhaustion that followed cold-turkey withdrawal), and once on my first pregnancy. Neither experience gave me any reason to believe a life without tea is a good life.
Having spent most of my younger days in Ireland, where tea is everywhere, and mostly it's decent, I whined my way across the States in the 80s and first half of the 90s. Now back in Dublin, and the tea situation is a bit mixed, but there's the internet to provide what nearby shops don't!
I started drinking green and white teas as well as my staple black a good few years ago now, but have recently decided I need to LEARN something more about tea than the little I know.
My likes:
- strong black tea blends; some flavoured blacks, such as Earl Grey and a small (but growing) number of other fruit and flower-flavoured ones; and chai. (For some daft reason, I feel like a tea fraud drinking sweet chai at home, though I'll happily drink it out.)
- Chinese greens (may update this when I've learned enough to be more specific); some flavoured greens, especially if they're made by the fabulous Yumchaa; Genmaicha; getting to like Sencha, as long as it's not too bitter.
- White tea, pretty much as long as it's good quality, I like it. Some flavoured ones are nice, though it's easy to overpower the more delicate taste of white.
- Rooibos, which I know, I know, isn't properly 'tea'. (As above for Yumchaa flavoured rooibos – some of my favourites.)
- Any black tea made by someone who doesn't know you need BOILING WATER. (See above about the Whining Years.)
- Hibiscus in fruit-flavoured teas. Looks so pretty! Tastes so awful!
I'm working on trying to like Hojicha, which isn't going too well yet. Jane Pettigrew describes it as "biscuity", but unless she's eaten a lot of cigarette-flavoured biscuits in her time, I don't get it.
- Aniseed in spiced teas. (Just discovered this one for the dislike list today, in an otherwise-tasty chai. Don't like the tongue-numbing effect.)
Indecisive, despite being opinionated – okay, very opinionated – so may just add notes rather than rating.
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A University of Georgia researcher says eradicating the disease may not be possible. However, work continues to be done to help farmers select resistant varieties and manage their risks.
Severe cases of this virus have increased in recent years, especially in the fall when whitefly pressure is high. Tomato yellow curl virus, which is transmitted by whiteflies, can cause very high yield losses and reduce the crop's marketability. In some cases, the entire crop can be lost.
"Right now, it's really not uncommon to find infection rates over 90 percent in several fields," said Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan, an entomologist at the Tifton campus of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. "The ramifications of this virus could be huge if we don't try to manage it."
Symptoms of a tomato plant infected by the tomato yellow leaf curl virus include yellowing foliage, leaf curling and stunting. The virus had an extreme effect on tomato production last year, due in large part to heavy whitefly pressure. A year ago, plants started showing virus symptoms just two weeks after being planted.
The most common approach to managing the virus is to use insecticides. That tactic has proven to be futile time and again, though, according to Srinivasan. Insects with the virus can transmit it within five minutes of feeding, meaning a "super-efficient" chemical is needed to contain the spread of the virus.
In affected areas, farmers sprayed once a week last year and the virus still prevailed, he said.
"It kind of tells us that insecticides can be effective to suppress the insects but not the viruses that they transmit," Srinivasan said. "In such scenarios, we'll have to weigh our options and come up with some other tactics, which include resistant varieties and cultural tactics."
Despite the availability of resistant cultivars, growers have been hesitant to use them. "(Farmers) believe that the resistant cultivars have poor horticultural attributes and often are not preferred by consumers. Growers have not actually resorted to planting these varieties because when these varieties came out, in the initial stages, they didn't produce good tomatoes," he said.
Srinivasan said farmers prefer susceptible varieties because they "produce really nice-looking tomatoes with good shelf life." CAES researchers are currently evaluating new resistant varieties they believe will be good options for growers.
Another option that growers will have in the future is a risk-assessment website that Srinivasan hopes will be implemented within the next couple of years.
"This website will be developed with funding from the USDA-AFRI program. The growers can actually go into this website and plug in information to see how much risk they're going to have if they plant with the options they currently have planned for," Srinivasan said. "The website would also give growers options to minimize risks."
Despite the virus' persistence in South Georgia, Srinivasan and his fellow CAES entomologists David Riley and Stormy Sparks are confident that management will continue to improve.
"At this point, we've passed the elimination or eradication stage as the virus has already been here since the late 1990s. The options we have now are to manage this virus rather than eradicate it," Srinivasan said.


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Tech companies urge U.S. FCC to scrap 'net neutrality' plan
By Reuters
May 08, 2014 07:53 AM EDT
May 08, 2014 07:53 AM EDT
(Reuters) - More than 100 technology companies, including Google Inc, Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Amazon.com Inc, have written to U.S. telecom regulators to oppose a new "net neutrality" plan that would regulate how Internet providers manage Web traffic.
The letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and the agency's four commissioners, warning of a "grave threat to the Internet," came as one FCC commissioner called for a delay of a vote on the plan scheduled for May 15.
"Rushing headlong into a rulemaking next week fails to respect the public response to his (Wheeler's) proposal," Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said on Wednesday in remarks prepared for delivery at an industry meeting. She called for a delay of the vote to formally propose Wheeler's plan by "at least a month."
Wheeler has been under fire for proposing new so-called "open Internet" or "net neutrality" rules that would allow content companies to pay broadband providers for faster Internet speeds delivering their traffic as long as the deals are deemed "commercially reasonable."
Consumer advocates are worried the rules would ultimately allow Internet companies such as Comcast Corp or Verizon Communications Inc to create "fast lanes" on the Web for traffic of content companies that pay up, potentially shutting out poorer newcomers.
The latest to weigh in is the consortium of technology and Internet companies, which ranged from household names to small startups. They called on the FCC to "take the necessary steps to ensure that the Internet remains an open platform for speech and commerce."
Commission rules should not permit "individualized bargaining and discrimination," the companies said.
Engine Advocacy and New America's Open Technology Institute, long-time supporters of Open Internet policies, helped organize the effort.
FCC spokesman Neil Grace said Wheeler does not plan to delay the May 15 vote. Though Wheeler has written and spokes about his proposal, the proposed rules have not been made public in full.
"Moving forward will allow the American people to review and comment on the proposed plan without delay, and bring us one step closer to putting rules on the books to protect consumers and entrepreneurs online," Grace said in a statement.
Tens of thousands of public comments have been received by the FCC on Wheeler's plan over the past two weeks, and commission staff has met with nearly 100 stakeholders, including public interest groups and Internet content providers.
With two Republican commissioners broadly opposed to regulation of Internet traffic, the support of two Democrats on the panel - Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn - is critical for Wheeler's proposal to pass.
"I am listening to your voices as I approach this critical vote to preserve an ever-free and open Internet. ... My mind remains open as I continue to evaluate how best to promote these fundamental, core values," Clyburn said, reiterating her opposition to pay-for-priority arrangements.
To read Rosenworcel's comments, go to bit.ly/1uC4JHu
To read Clyburn's comments, go to fcc.us/1s4ukEN
A handful of protesters gathered in the rain in front of the FCC headquarters in Washington on Wednesday afternoon, vowing to show up daily until the May 15 vote, when a high-profile demonstration is expected.
Consumer advocates have long urged the FCC to reclassify Internet service providers as more highly regulated utilities, like the telecom companies, a view that has faced staunch opposition from Republican lawmakers and broadband companies.
(Reporting by Alina Selyukh; Editing by Ros Krasny, Sandra Maler, Jan Paschal, Richard Chang and Mohammad Zargham)
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Philadelphia, PA – There is little reason to follow the NHL's ongoing labor crisis because neither side involved is serious about ending the dispute anytime soon.
Not including the owners or players, there could be a few hockey fans out there who are legitimately interested in the finer points of what the league's next collective bargaining agreement will look like. To say those people are in the overwhelming minority would be obvious. That's because NHL fans have little reason to take the side of either the owners or the players. Correctly, they are focused on the one question that affects them most: "Will I get to watch NHL hockey this year?"
At the present time, however, the owners and players are far less concerned with answering that question than they are with taking care of their own interests. It's fairly safe to assume that query is far from being answered because all the owners and players have done is display indignation at the proposals presented by either side.
There is a common analogy that compares labor negotiations to a "game of chicken" and it has become cliche for all the right reasons -- it's startlingly accurate.
With the current CBA slated to expire in less than a month, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and his band of owners are hardly ready to cave in to the players' demands. Obviously, the same goes for Donald Fehr, executive director of the NHL Players Association, who like Bettman is fully prepared to talk past the other side for months if they deem taking such a hard-line stance to be necessary.
Both sides scoff when the other asks them to take a smaller share of revenue and that is an issue that isn't going to go away. Even if the two sides find somehow to agree on other topics like revenue sharing or limiting the length of contracts, you can bet the fight over who gets what size piece of the pie will last until the bitter end of labor talks. Whether that end comes before or after the current CBA is set to expire on Sept. 15 is anybody's guess.
After all, we are talking about warring factions with pockets deeper than the Mariana Trench. The owners and players could hunker down for months without feeling what's it like to be poor and when you're fighting over money and still not running out of it, why would it ever cross your mind to think about the lowly fans who want to watch hockey as a diversion from their everyday lives?
This is a high-stakes game and most of us wouldn't even be allowed entrance to the building it's being played in, let alone earn a spot at the table.
On Wednesday, Bettman and the NHL's deputy commissioner, Bill Daly, met briefly with the NHLPA boss and his brother Steve Fehr, an advisor for the union, in Toronto. That preliminary meeting was originally scheduled to be followed later in the day by a larger meeting between the two sides, but that session was pushed back to Thursday.
Depending on one's point of view, the scrapping of Wednesday's main meeting could be good or bad for the overall negotiations. At this stage of the game, it's more likely that the cancellation is irrelevant to the lengthy process of getting a deal done.
The owners and players are meeting this week in Toronto to talk about "core economic issues," but it's hard to believe inroads will be made in those areas anytime soon. After all, Bettman and the owners and the Fehr-led NHLPA each have their own ideas on how to improve the overall economic health of the league. Not surprisingly, neither side's argument will be centered around how an abbreviated or canceled 2012-13 season will affect the NHL's fiscal status.
One thing we do know is that the players have accepted the fact that a hard salary cap will stay in place. However, according to Bettman's comments after a meeting last week with Fehr and the NHLPA, that is where the efforts to reach across the aisle ends.
"There's obviously been an acknowledgement that we have issues. There has been an acknowledgement, or an acceptance if you will, that we're going to have a cap system" Bettman said. "But, in terms of how we're looking at the world, and I say this on a broader sense as it relates to the game and the health and everything else, we're not on the same page."
How could you be on the same page when there's still so much more saber rattling to be done? So much time until the people who will suffer in this fight, like the numerous team and stadium employees, see serious money concerns creep into their lives.
Beware of people who say they know definitively how this will play out, there is no way of knowing that at this point. Even if both sides found middle ground on all the issues by the time they are scheduled to meet again on Thursday, there is still plenty of time to haggle before the Sep. 15 deadline and haggle they will.
Common sense says the league can't afford another work stoppage so soon after the one that canceled the 2004-05 season, but that assumes the owners and player are using logic as a guide. Unfortunately, they are not. Not yet, at least.
Somehow the luckiest people in this debate -- the owners and players -- get to fight this hard and long over money provided by a general public that no direct link to the negotiations. The only forum the fans have to exercise their frustrations is to stop handing over their cash to the NHL, something that certainly did not happen after labor issues canceled the 2004-05 season.
Eventually, common sense will win out, but it's still too early to tell whether that day comes before some or all of the season is sacrificed to labor strife.
As for the owners and players, don't look to them for any clues. At least not while they're still focused on how much of the meat ends up on their plates.


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On Dec. 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire to protest government corruption. Less than a month later, Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a man who won 89% of the vote in Tunisia's rubber stamp elections, fled for his life.
American diplomats long considered Tunisia among its closest allies in the Middle East. Ben Ali oversaw a police state, but a secular one. Tunis has long hosted the State Department's advanced Arabic language school, training generations of diplomats. But across the Middle East, Arabs knew Tunisia differently: In a region replete with dictatorships, it was among the worst. If Tunisians could defeat Ben Ali in less than a month, anything was possible.
Within days, protests erupted in Egypt, sparking the worst rioting in decades. One out of three Arabs lives in Egypt. Cairo remains a cultural capital for the entire region. As protests spread, and the grip of octogenarian president Hosni Mubarak waivers, the White House sounded a cautious note. "I would not refer to him as a dictator," Vice President Biden said on PBS NewsHour, reminding viewers that "Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things."
The value of the Egyptian alliance is less than meets the eye. Certainly, Mubarak's predecessor Anwar Sadat deserves praise for accepting peace with Israel, although he did so only after failing to achieve his aims through war. Mubarak's Egypt votes with the U.S. at the United Nations only 17% of the time, making Egypt a less reliable partner than Cuba, Vietnam or Zimbabwe. During both the 1991 liberation of Kuwait and the ouster of Saddam 12 years later, Mubarak's support was ephemeral at best. Privately, Egypt often backs the American position on Iran, Libya, and Hamas, but that has less to do with Washington's desires than with Egyptian self-interest.
But even if Mubarak is not a good ally, can the U.S. say for certain that what comes next will not be worse? Iran's Islamic Revolution scarred American policymakers. The Shah had his faults, but they were mild compared to Ayatollah Khomeini's. Unseating dictators need not bring about an Islamic Republic, however, if the U.S. is proactive.
Egyptian-American sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim speaks of a dynamic in Arab states in which autocrats and theocrats recruit based on fear of the other. The key, he argues, is to create a liberal alternative in the middle. This was the philosophical underpinning of George W. Bush's approach, at least during his first five years in office. But, after setbacks in Iraq and Gaza, Bush reversed course. Under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's tutelage, he reversed course, reverting to the realist notion of prioritizing short-term relations with any regime over efforts to win long-term reform.
Her choice was misguided. Dictatorships do not bring stability. For decades before the 2006 Gaza elections, dictators led the Middle East into a cycle of destructive wars. To celebrate Saddam Hussein, Hafez al-Assad, or Gamal Abdul Nasser for their stabilizing impact on the Middle East is inane. Nor was it wise to leverage American security on the longevity of Mubarak's regime wise. Octogenarian dictators do not have high life expectancy.
Today, the U.S. is paying the price for its refusal to cultivate liberal opposition. Next to Iraq and Afghanistan, Egypt hosts the largest American embassy in the world. That no American diplomat saw this uprising coming, however, should raise serious questions about how our embassies operate. That the Muslim Brotherhood presents a real challenge to American policy is undeniable. In neither Tunisia nor Egypt, however, have Islamists led the popular protests, although there is a risk that the Brotherhood may co-opt the protests. The mistake the White House has made in the past--both under Bush and Obama--is that it has accepted the rhetoric of democracy and liberalism without setting tough standards. Militias should never be accepted as political parties, nor should any group that legitimizes terrorism ever have America's imprimatur. The sooner the White House and State Department engage non-violent opposition groups in the Middle East, the more influence the U.S. will enjoy when the going gets rough and the dictators get going.


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Nickelodeon Networks's 1Q 2010 Ratings Report
via Nickelodeon press release:
Nickelodeon Scores Its Most-Watched Quarter Ever; Tops Basic Cable With Kids, Tweens and Total Viewers
iCarly Nabs Basic Cable's Top Entertainment Telecast This Quarter with Total Viewers; iCarly, Big Time Rush and Nickelodeon's 23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards Rank as Top Entertainment Telecasts with Kids
Nick at Nite, TeenNick, Nick Jr. and Nicktoons Boast Their Most-Watched Quarter
NEW YORK, March 30 /PRNewswire/ — Nickelodeon's first quarter performance marks its biggest audience ever with total viewers (P2+) in the network's 30-year history and its 60th straight quarter as the top basic cable network with kids 2-11 and total viewers—the longest run of its kind. Nick also claims basic cable's top spot in total day with kids 2-11, kids 6-11, tweens 9-14 and persons 2+ for 1Q10. According to Nielsen Media Research (12/28/09-3/28/10), Nickelodeon averaged 2.3 million total viewers; a 3.7/1.3 million K2-11; a 3.2/684,000 K6-11; and 2.3/490,000 T9-14 for the quarter.
Nick's 1Q10 was fueled by performances of the number-one kids' live-action show iCarly, which scored basic cable's top entertainment telecast ("iSaved Your Life", Monday, Jan. 18, 8 p.m. ET/PT) with total viewers for the quarter. iCarly's "iSaved Your Life" also stands as broadcast and basic cable's top entertainment telecast with kids 2-11, kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14 for the quarter, ranking behind only Super Bowl XLIV overall.
Nick's record-setting premiere of its latest live-action hit, Big Time Rush (Jan. 18, 8: 30 p.m. ET/PT) ranked among basic cable's top five most-watched entertainment telecasts with total viewers this quarter. The debut also finished second to iCarly among all broadcast and basic cable's top entertainment telecasts with kids 2-11, kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14 for the quarter.
Nickelodeon boasts the top three entertainment telecasts for the quarter. Nickelodeon's 23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards (KCAs) hosted by Kevin James (Saturday, March 27, 8:00 p.m. [ET/PT]) ranks as basic cable's number-two entertainment telecast with total viewers (behind iCarly) for the quarter and the number-three entertainment telecast on broadcast and basic cable with kids 2-11 (behind Nick's own #1 iCarly and #2 Big Time Rush). The KCAs telecast also ranks as the network's second biggest Awards ever, taking basic cable's top spot for the week of 3/22/10-3/28/10 with total viewers (7.6 million), and scored the top telecast for the week with kids and tweens on broadcast and basic cable.
This year's KCAs were followed by the debut of Nickelodeon's latest live-action hit, Victorious (9:30 p.m. [ET/PT]), which now stands as the second biggest live-action series premiere in Nickelodeon's history (behind only Big Time Rush [Jan. 18, 8:30 p.m. ET/PT]), and was basic cable's number-two telecast for the week it premiered (3/22/10-3/28/10) with total viewers (5.7 million), kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14.
With kids 2-11 for the quarter, Nickelodeon boasts six of the top 10 programs on broadcast and basic cable, including top-ranked SpongeBob SquarePants, iCarly and The Penguins of Madagascar. Additionally, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Penguins of Madagascar were the top two animated shows on all of basic cable with total viewers.
Additionally, Nick at Nite drew its most-watched quarter ever with total viewers (1.7 million P2+) and finished 1Q10 as the top cable network among W18-49 (0.7/422,000). Nickelodeon's digital networks TeenNick and Nick Jr. closed first quarter with their best quarterly performances among total viewers, while Nicktoons had its most-watched first quarter with its core demo of boys 6-11.
TeenNick posted its most-watched quarter ever with total viewers, averaging 194,000 viewers P2+ (up +5% over last year) and also had its best first quarter with its core demographic of teens 12-17 (0.4/63,000, tied with 1Q09). Nick Jr. also netted its most-watched quarter ever with its preschool audience (2.9/302,000, +12%) in addition to total viewers (568,000). Nicktoons scored its most-watched first quarter performance ever with kids 6-11 (0.4/50,000, +2%), and tweens 9-14 (0.3/37,000, 0%) and its most-watched and highest-rated first quarter ever with boys 6-11 (0.6/36,000, +9%) and boys 9-14 (0.4/27,000, +4%).
Nickelodeon, now in its 30th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 15 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. ( VIA, VIA.B).
Source: NMR, Live +7 Blended with Live +Same Day data 12/28/09-3/14/10, Live + Same Day data 3/8/10-3/28/10
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